Examples of 'whipping boy' in a sentence
Meaning of "whipping boy"
whipping boy - This phrase refers to a person who is blamed or punished for the mistakes or wrongdoings of others. It is often used metaphorically to describe someone who is unfairly held responsible for the actions of a group
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- A boy that was whipped in the stead of a misbehaving prince.
- Someone punished for the errors of others.
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You were my whipping boy for years.
I am sick and tired of being your whipping boy.
Only the whipping boy has changed.
Looks like your the whipping boy.
I am the whipping boy around here.
You do not want to be a whipping boy.
My whipping boy ai not got the sense of a gnat.
I have been your whipping boy for eight years.
Or break down the spirit of your whipping boy.
The young whipping boy hisself.
I will no longer be your whipping boy.
But a whipping boy it should not be.
Miguel is now your whipping boy.
My whipping boy is over there.
Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.
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The only thing he needs me for is to be his whipping boy.
Served as a whipping boy in our grade.
Freddy was like her whipping boy.
New whipping boy.
And you were the whipping boy.
His whipping boy.
Every unit needs a whipping boy.
Whipping boy shot.
They simply need a whipping boy.
The role of whipping boy was not one the warrior aspired to.
Now you are his whipping boy.
A whipping boy was a young boy educated with a prince and punished in his place.
Fathers would want their sons to be whipping boy.
There will be no whipping boy for you this time.
The other lad here is his whipping boy.
You have been his whipping boy ever since you could walk.
Yet he became a cultural whipping boy.
A whipping boy was a slave who suffered corporal punishment on behalf of his young master.
I am not going to be her whipping boy anymore.
A whipping boy is a child who gets whipped in place of the prince in the palace.
And you are their whipping boy.
I was whipping boy to the First Lady.
I am not your whipping boy.
Engels has thus served in the academic discourse on Marxism as a convenient whipping boy.
Whip the whipping boy.
You should go somewhere where no one knows you as a whipping boy.
The class whipping boy.
They have turned this huge country into a whipping boy.
I have been his whipping boy for too long.
Fox News is just a convenient whipping boy.
Army is the whipping boy of Congress.
I am done being your whipping boy.
We have become the whipping boy for the IRA and the cartel.
Sir James is just the whipping boy.
Perry 's little whipping boy told us to leave town.
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